Monday, April 11, 2011

I Am Not Perfect

Being able to admit this to myself has been huge! I have a strong, controlling personality. I think I know best and I want to be right all the time. Ask my family, they know. I want to be perfect.

Recently, however, I decided that I wasn't perfect and I never will be while I remain on this earth. This has freed me to be able to accept criticism, correction, and rebuke. I want people to be able to tell me when I have said the wrong things, hurt their feelings, been selfish, or irresponsible without being upset with them.

The Bible says, Awise man takes rebuke {Proverbs 9:8}. I want to be wise. I don't always have to be right, I don't know everything, and I don't always see me for who I am. "

Ironsharpens iron {Proverbs 27:17}. It is never pleasant to realize that other people see you as less than perfect. It is humiliating. But the fruit of other people's correction and rebuke, if we accept it, works to make us better people. We are not an island. We need each other, even if means it will hurt our feelings.

Welcome! I have been married for 34 years. I have four grown children who walk in Truth and two precious grandchildren. All of my children are happily married to godly spouses. I love teaching women to be sober, to love their husbands and children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, and obedient to their husbands as the Bible instructs me to do.This is a personal teaching blog sharing what I have seen work from God's Word in my life and the lives of many others. "A wise man will hear, and will increase in learning..."{Proverbs 1:5}.